Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

People in this world are not often logical.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.